Improvement in ox-bow fasteners



P. WEBB. ox-BoW FASTENER.

No. 192,205. VAPatentemune191,187?.

HITNESSES INVENTUR mamas.

NFETERS, FHOTOJJTHOGRAPHEE, WASHINGTDN, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PRESCOTT VEBB, 0F GREENLEAF, MINNESOTA.

IMPROi/EMENT IN -OX-BOW FASTENERS.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,205, dated June 19, 1877; application led MarchQli, 1877.

To all ywhom it' may concern Be it known that I, PEEsoo'rT WEBB, of Greenleaf, in the county ot' Meeker and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and Improved OX-Bow Fastener, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a top View, and Fig. 2 a side view, ot'V that is attached by screws or otherwise to the top ot' the yoke. lhe base-plate A extends by a circular part, B, around the hole provided for the passage of the bow end, and guides in a socket,"0 a sliding bolt, D, that is moved by a stud and retained in locked position by au L-shaped slot, a.. The bolt passes through a lateral hole ofthe bow and into a socket, Cf,

of part B, at a point diametrically opposite l to socket G.

The bolt ina-y be spring-acted, if desired,

but for most purposes the construction shown iu the drawing;- is preferable.

The bolts lock the ox-bows rigidly to the yoke, and admit their instant detaching from, and reattachment to, the yoke, as required,

forming a simple and readily-operated device for fastening oxfbows to the yoke.

Having` thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pat.

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-An oX-yoke fastener-plate, A B, provided with aligned tubes G C', the former having L shaped slot a, and a bolt, D, having side stud that Works iu said slot, as shown and described.

rkfEsooTT WEBB. l

Witnesses L. S. WEYMOUTII, L. C. TUTHILL. 

